The Great Depression

Match the following

• Bonus Army

• So many people wanted to sell stocks on this day that the market crashed

• Great Depression

• Purchasing Stocks on credit, or with borrowed money

• buying on margin

• A group of 17,000 WWI veterans that built a Hooverville in Washington D.C.

• Black Tuesday

• Up and down pattern as the economy drops and bounces back

• business cycle

• A severe and lengthy period of economic downturn that began in 1929

Match the following

• Social Security Act

• A program created by Roosevelt and congress to battle the depression

• New Deal

• A project that hired people to build dams and generators

• Fireside chats

• Radio addresses from President Roosevelt to the American people

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• This organized workers based on industry, not skill level

• Congress of Industrial Organizations

• This provided some financial security to the elderly, disabled, and unemployed

This act led people to start trusting the banks again and making deposits.

• Emergency Banking Act

• Works Progress Administration

• Social Security Act

• Tennessee Valley Authority

This new deal act built roads and airports

• Civilian Works Corps

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Civil Works Administration

• Works Progress Administration

This act led to the planting of trees and creation of National Parks

• Agriculture Adjustment Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Social Security Act

This act built dams and generators

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Civil Works Administration

• Works Progress Administration

This act helped farmers restructure mortgages and create stable crop prices

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Civil Aviation Cooperation

• Agriculture Adjustment Act

• Agriculture Betterment Act

This act tried to eliminate unfair competition in the industry world

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• National Railroad Conservation Act

• Works Progress Administration

• Social Security Act

This act was a part of the second New Deal and created more construction jobs and more infastructure projects.

• Works Progress Administration

• National Youth Administration

• Agriculture Adjustment Act

• National Industrial Recovery Act

This act created part time jobs for students

• National Youth Administration

• Congress of Industrial Organization

• National Labor Relations Act

• Social Security Act